who has died aged 85, at Harold Pinter’s funeral almost 12 years ago. I led a convoy of cars towards what I thought was the appropriate site in Kensal Green cemetery only to find that I had missed the turning.
When I apologised to all those who had blindly followed me, Ronnie looked me in the eye and said: “As so often, Michael, you’ve been leading everyone in the wrong direction.” Related: Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning scriptwriter for The Pianist, dies at 85 I took the remark as affectionate mockery.
But it strikes me that the observation, both in its suspicion of critics and its tart humour, might have come straight out of The Dresser: Harwood’s most enduring play that, ever since its debut at Manchester’s Royal Exchange in 1980, has.
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